> ## Documentation Index
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# Policies

> API endpoints for policies

Manage the policies that encode how your organisation should handle incidents.

A policy scopes itself to a set of resources with conditions, states the requirements
those resources must meet, and describes who to chase when they don't.

Every policy has a <code>policy\_type</code>, which selects exactly one matching
configuration block: a <code>follow\_up</code> policy carries <code>follow\_up</code>
config, a <code>schedule</code> policy carries <code>schedule</code> config, and so
on. Sending a block that doesn't match the policy type is rejected.

## The policy object